Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
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When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people
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What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself
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We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.
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We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves
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We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved
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Yes, you are right - I am a moralist in disguise; it gets me into heaps of trouble when I go thrashing around in political questions
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Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.
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The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing